Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night” because he wanted people to know how life is in a concentration camp. Elie has been through a lot of horrific things that no one could imagine. Elie wants to inform people what he went through in a concentration camp. Elie knew that it is important for people to know about this. Elie wrote the book because it is so traumatizing and is an experience that no one could forget. Elie thinks the period of that time is meager, pale and lifeless. Elie has been through his mother, sister, and other family members dying in the gas chambers. He has seen young innocent children transform into smoke in the silent sky.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
Kristallnacht was a night when the Nazi policeman went out to destroy Jewish synagogues and Jewish businesses so Jewish people would have to move out or start over.
Kistalnacht means the Night of the Broken Glass.
Kristalnacht happened on November 9, 1938.
Reinhard Heydrich who was the General of the SS, Heinrich Himmler who was the leader of the Gestapo, Adolf Eichmann who was the leader of Jewish Affairs, these leaders all represented the SS.
The Final Solution was the code name for the annihilation of the European Jews.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
There were three types of ghettos, closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. A closed ghetto was a closed off by walls, German soldiers compelled Jews, and epidemics were the outcome of the life styles the Jews had to live in and were mainly in Poland and the Soviet Union. An open ghetto had no walls or fences but had restrictions whether Jews could leave, these were in Poland, the Soviet Union and Ukraine. A destruction ghetto was tightly sealed off and lasted from two to six weeks mainly just killing Jews, these ghettos were in the Soviet Union, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Hungary.
Life in a ghetto was very bad you had a limited amount of supplies and didn’t have shelter, German soldiers could accuse you of doing anything.
In labor camps the Nazis made you work and do labor, people would die of starvation, exhaustion and exposure. In concentration camps the Nazis were deliberately kill Jews in the camps by putting them in gas chambers.
The conditions were horrible, they were abused, didn’t have a lot of food, beds were terrible, people died of sicknesses and starvation.
The Nazis would perform extermination by shooting the victims or gassing them.
The Allied forces liberated the concentration camps.
Hitler commit suicide before the end of the war.
24 defendants were charged, they represented the Nazi party.
Asignment 3: Images of Night
--- Moishe the Beatle Moishe the Beatle Poor and Homeless Caring, Teaching, and Preaching Like a ghost to people and as teaching as a priest A traumatized man full of death Terrified Along with all of the Jews
Table of Contents
River H. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
A Horrific Childhood
Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night” because he wanted people to know how life is in a concentration camp. Elie has been through a lot of horrific things that no one could imagine. Elie wants to inform people what he went through in a concentration camp. Elie knew that it is important for people to know about this. Elie wrote the book because it is so traumatizing and is an experience that no one could forget. Elie thinks the period of that time is meager, pale and lifeless. Elie has been through his mother, sister, and other family members dying in the gas chambers. He has seen young innocent children transform into smoke in the silent sky.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
Kistalnacht means the Night of the Broken Glass.
Kristalnacht happened on November 9, 1938.
Reinhard Heydrich who was the General of the SS, Heinrich Himmler who was the leader of the Gestapo, Adolf Eichmann who was the leader of Jewish Affairs, these leaders all represented the SS.
The Final Solution was the code name for the annihilation of the European Jews.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
They would self purge all of the other groups, and they would annihilate all of the Jews.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
Life in a ghetto was very bad you had a limited amount of supplies and didn’t have shelter, German soldiers could accuse you of doing anything.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
The conditions were horrible, they were abused, didn’t have a lot of food, beds were terrible, people died of sicknesses and starvation.
The Nazis would perform extermination by shooting the victims or gassing them.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
The IMT decided to charge the 24 defendants.
Hitler commit suicide before the end of the war.
24 defendants were charged, they represented the Nazi party.
Asignment 3: Images of Night
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Moishe the Beatle
Moishe the Beatle
Poor and Homeless
Caring, Teaching, and Preaching
Like a ghost to people and as teaching as a priest
A traumatized man full of death
Terrified
Along with all of the Jews